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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 37
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Hezekiah seeks counsel from Isaiah to save Jerusalem—Isaiah prophesies defeat of Assyrians and death of Sennacherib—Hezekiah prays for deliverance—Sennacherib sends a blasphemous letter—Isaiah prophesies destruction of Assyrians, and that a remnant of Judah will flourish—An angel slays 185,000 Assyrians—Sennacherib slain by his sons.
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And</span> it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard <i>it,</i> that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And he sent Eliakim, who <i>was</i> over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
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And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day <i>is</i> a day of <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 22: 5.">trouble</a>, and of rebuke, and of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/37/3b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR provocation.">blasphemy</a>: for the children are come to <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/37/3c" mark="c" type="E" title="IE the crisis; Hosea 13: 13 (9-14).">the</a> birth, and <i>there is</i> not strength to bring forth.
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It may be the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up <i>thy</i> prayer for the remnant that is left.
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So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
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&#182; And <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 19: 6 (6-37).">Isaiah</a> said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
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Behold, I will <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/7a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB put a spirit in him.">send</a> a blast upon him, and he shall hear a <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/37/7b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR report, or tidings.">rumour</a>, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
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&#182; So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
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And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee.  And when he heard <i>it,</i> he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
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Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
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Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
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Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, <i>as</i> Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which <i>were</i> in Telassar?
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Where <i>is</i> the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
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&#182; And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and spread it before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And Hezekiah prayed unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, saying,
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O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest <i>between</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Cherubim.">cherubims</a>, thou <i>art</i> the God, <i>even</i> thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
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Incline thine ear, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and hear; open thine eyes, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/17a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB blaspheme.">reproach</a> the living God.
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Of a truth, <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR lands.">countries</a>,
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And have cast their gods into the fire: for they <i>were</i> no <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">gods</a>, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
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Now therefore, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou <i>art</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>even</i> thou only.
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&#182; Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the  <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
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This <i>is</i> the word which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath spoken concerning him; <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/22a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE The unconquered people of Jerusalem.">The</a> virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, <i>and</i> laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
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Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?  and against whom hast thou exalted <i>thy</i> voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? <i>even</i> against the Holy One of Israel.
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By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 22: 7 (6-7).">cedars</a> thereof, <i>and</i> the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, <i>and</i> the forest of his Carmel.
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I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
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Hast thou not heard long ago, <i>how</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/26a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE The prophet speaks for the LORD who created everything.">I</a> have done it; <i>and</i> of ancient times, that I have formed it?  now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities <i>into</i> ruinous heaps.
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Therefore their inhabitants <i>were</i> of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were <i>as</i> the grass of the field, and <i>as</i> the green herb, <i>as</i> the grass on the housetops, and <i>as corn</i> blasted before it be grown up.
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But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
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Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
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And this <i>shall be</i> a sign unto <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/30a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Hezekiah, king of Judah.">thee</a>, Ye shall eat <i>this</i> year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
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And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
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For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/32a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Remnant of.">remnant</a>, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/37/32b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Zeal.">zeal</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts shall do this.
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Therefore thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/33a" mark="a" type="A" title="Luke 19: 43.">bank</a> against it.
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By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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For I will <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/35a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 38: 6.">defend</a> this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
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Then the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/37/36a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 10: 34.">angel</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> went forth, and smote in the camp of the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/37/36b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 19: 35 (32-37); Isa. 14: 25 (24-28); Isa. 30: 31; Isa. 31: 8 (7-9).">Assyrians</a> a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/37/36c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE those who were left.">they</a> arose early in the morning, behold, they <i>were</i> all dead corpses.
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&#182; So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
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And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
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